Community Partners 

College Unbound (CU), focuses on adult learners who have faced significant barriers to attending college. CU coordinates courses, field studies, and in-depth project work to help students develop field-specific knowledge and skills that encourage deep learning. CU fills a unique niche in postsecondary education for returning adult learners with a Bachelor’s Degree program designed around an innovative, personalized, interest/project-based curriculum model.

Why Not You Academy is a proud affiliate of the Big Picture Learning network. Big Picture's vision is that all students live lives of their own design, supported by caring mentors and equitable opportunities to achieve their greatest potential.

Glover Empower Mentoring (GEM) is a community-based nonprofit organization that offers mentoring and case management services to youth and young adults throughout King and Pierce Counties, by working together with state and local governments and municipalities, and other various community-based organizations.

GIRLS ON THE RISE

The KD Hall Foundation has implemented an innovative, strength-based, and restorative Girls on the Rise (GOTR) leadership program for girls and young women ages 11-18 throughout the state of Washington, focusing on the traditionally marginalized South King County communities.

WNYA partners with nXu to integrate a purpose-driven social-emotional curriculum for all students, through our Advisory block. Our approach is focused on identity-affirmation, culture building, purpose-driven vision and goal setting, social-emotional competency development, and trauma-informed practice.

Founded by Russell Wilson in 2014, the Why Not You Foundtion is a nonprofit dedicated to education, children’s health, and fighting poverty, empowering today’s youth to lead with a “why not you” attitude. Their mission is to empower change in the world, one individual at a time, and one child at a time.